The Societies' Monthly Image Competition Rules

Rules of the Monthly Image Competition

Any images that violate copyright, trademark or any other applicable law will be disqualified.

The entrant’s name, or any other distinguishing marks, must not appear on the face of the image.

Only one image per category per month is to be entered.

No entry will be eligible that has been made under the supervision of an instructor or as a class assignment.

No image that receives a Gold award or a Merit in the 20x16"annual competition may be entered more than once under any condition.

No exact same image may be entered into more than one category.

Any images uploaded which are not correctly named will be automatically disqualified.

Any entry which has been reproduced from an existing photograph, portrait, graphic or any other artwork produced by another person is a violation of the competition rules and will be disqualified.

Entrants agree that any photograph entered may be used by The Societies and or Professional Imagemaker in any of the publications, printed materials, or electronic media. Also the image may be used for promotional use by The Societies, unless otherwise agreed.

Images entered into Wedding Day and/or Wedding Day - Bride or Groom Alone must have been taken on the day the register was signed and must be commissioned work only.

Prizes will not be awarded if the winner does not attend the annual awards presentation or provides an acceptable reason for absence.

To upload your competition entries, follow these simple instructions

To prepare your images for upload please open with an appropriate program.

Make sure your image is 2,000 pixels on the longest side and there are no names or distinguishing marks on the entry. No bigger than 2,000 pixels on the longest side

Select ‘Save
for Web’ from the menu and ensure that the following
information is entered as the file name:
Your_Name_Category_Month_Country_Year_MembershipNumber.jpg
i.e. Colin_Jones_landscape_August _Wales_14_00001.jpg

Failure to title your image as above will result in your
images being deleted also upload only one image per
category. Max file size 2MB.

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